The Three-Body Problem: The Most Competent Wallfacer of All Time

Chapter 481 Loopholes in the rules?
The description of "Old Cheng Ping" is so magical that Luo Ji and others didn't know how to make up the picture for a while.

But they all realized that "chameleon" is not a simple phenomenon that can emit colors, and it should have deeper secrets.

When "Old Cheng Ping" said this, he suddenly fell into a long pause. He seemed to be reminiscing the beauty of that moment, and it seemed that he was still shocked when he recalled it at this moment.

After about a minute or so, he came back to his senses and continued to speak: "I don't know how long it has been in that perspective, it seems to be a long, long time!
"I went back to the spaceship, and I was the only one left in the spaceship.

"And my luck was not very good, the moment time stopped changing on me was the twilight years, I was very old.

"Fortunately, there are still robots available on the spaceship, and they took care of me for a while.

"Soon I found out from the timer that the time on the spaceship was going backwards day by day.

"At first I didn't take it to heart, after all, all the timing equipment before could not be accurately timed.

"Later, I found that my body was getting better and better. After a few years, I was already what I am now.

"That's when I was sure that my time was reversed, and I was really living backwards day by day.

"But just like before, my consciousness is not upside down, and I clearly know that my time is going backwards."

"Old Cheng Ping" paused for a while, and wiped the sweat from his forehead: "I have been thinking about it for the past few years, and finally I seem to have got the answer.

"'Chameleon' is probably a loophole in the laws of the universe, or a space in a chaotic state. In short, it is an anomaly in the universe.

"I thought about my previous dreams again, could it be because I entered this loophole that I started to enter the cycle of life?
"Because of the confusion in time, the cycle of my life, and the loophole in which I came into contact with the universe, the two are not in order, after all, time is not in sequence in this loophole.

"This is also my guess, and I can't prove it, but just now, I realized that my existence is a strong evidence!"

"Old Cheng Ping" changed his sitting posture: "At first, I thought I would drift forever in this chaos, but just now, I encountered a strange spaceship, and the passenger on that spaceship turned out to be Teacher Luo Ji. !

"Then I discovered that the spaceship was thousands of astronomical units away from the 'Chameleon', and I returned to the normal universe.

"But one detail caught my attention. First of all, in my memory, I never heard Mr. Luo Ji say that he met anyone when he was out of the speed of light.

"Secondly, I immediately realized, should I return to Earth immediately and make contact with me at the normal time flow? But I have never seen the future me in my memory!

"It was only then that I realized that I myself might be a loophole in the universe!
"Because it's a loophole, it didn't form a closed loop, nor did it form a 'grandfather paradox', because I was a product outside the running sequence of the entire universe!

"So in me, I will not have any connection with this universe, and my appearance will not be able to change any established things in this universe.

"To give an example, it's like I planned to hand over this video to me on May 5, but in my memory, before I had this plan, and after I had this plan, I never had the memory of watching this video!

"There are only two reasons for this result, the first is that Teacher Luo Ji did not send this video to me, and the second is that I am now a string independent of the entire universe.

"If you are also regarded as a string, then you must be entangled with the universe and other people, and there is no place for me to meet any string of the universe.

"I think it's the latter, because I believe that when Teacher Luo Ji meets another me, he will soon be in trouble, and Teacher Luo Ji will not let this weird matter go unpunished.

"So this communication and reminder is our first communication, whether it is the first time for you or me.

"I think that my existence is evidence of the existence of loopholes in the universe."

"Old Cheng Ping" breathed a sigh of relief, and began to say to himself: "The whole incident is like this, whether to get rid of that loophole in the universe is up to you to decide.

"Based on the current situation, even if you don't go to the loophole of the universe, I don't think it will have any substantial impact on what happened afterwards!

"But I sincerely invite you to take a look at the spectacular scene in the loophole, how can I say that feeling, you will feel that the whole person has been sublimated.

"But I won't go to see you now, because I'm a loophole, and you are a normal 'program'. After the two of us meet, we still don't know what the consequences will be.

"Just now I made a decision. Since my time is going backwards, I am going to return to the solar system, because four years ago, the solar system had not yet entered a two-dimensional state.

"More than a century ago, the earth was still in the solar system, enjoying the warmth brought by the sun.

"Just keep going backwards like this, maybe I can still see myself at the age of 27."

"Old Cheng Ping" looked at the timer: "It's almost 22:[-] now, I don't have much time, so let's stop here."

After the video ended, the lights in the room gradually brightened, but the few people in the room fell into a long silence.

A few minutes later, Luo Ji asked, "Tell me, how to investigate this matter?"

Cheng Ping said: "Report!"

As soon as he spoke, he realized that his voice was very hoarse, so he cleared his throat and said, "I hope the experts from the Academy of Sciences can explain what the loopholes in the universe are based on these clues."

Zhuang Yue nodded: "I agree with that too."

Then she said to Cheng Ping: "Until the Academy of Sciences has results, don't go on further exploration."

……

It was almost midnight when Jiang Yu received an urgent report from the chameleon research team, saying that the research work had made a breakthrough.

After he came to the meeting room, the research team first played the video recorded by Luo Ji. In the video, he described in detail how he met "Old Cheng Ping" after he left the speed of light flight.

Then the video reports of Cheng Ping and Zhuang Yue, the video of Luo Ji's conversation with "Old Cheng Ping" were played, and finally the video recorded by "Old Cheng Ping".

After reading this, several hours later, Jiang Yu asked a room full of researchers: "Can you explain what's going on now?"

Ricks, the leader of the research team and the dean of the Academy of Sciences, said: "We believe that it should be a loophole in the time dimension.

"It's like a gap in a water glass, and occasionally a drop of water leaks out of the gap."

"So 'this drop of water' happened to be caught up by the earth?" Jiang Yu asked.

Everyone didn't know how to answer this question, but Jiang Yu didn't seem to agree with the findings.

Jiang Yu took a deep breath and asked, "Where is 36?"

After 36 woke up, he did not continue to hibernate, but set up a project team to search for and study four-dimensional fragments with the support of Jiang Yu.

In the two years in the Milky Way, their team found a four-dimensional fragment more than 2 light-years away from the New World galaxy.

So 36 woke up Jiang Shiliu, and they immediately formed an investigation team and started their investigation mission.

Now they are rushing to the spaceport six thousand astronomical units away. After finishing the final supplies at the spaceport, they will enter the speed of light and fly to the four-dimensional debris.

After Jiang Yu learned that 36 had not yet entered the speed of light, he said: "Share all this information with him, and you should communicate with him more."

Jiang Yu stood up and said solemnly: "I feel that this incident is not as simple as you imagined. What happened to the elderly Cheng Ping may be of great help to our understanding of the entire universe!"

He waved his hand and said: "Okay, it's already early morning, everyone go to rest first. I will report after you have new results.

"Well, it's best during the day, and meeting at night is really a torment!"

So, on the morning of a week later, Jiang Yu, who had received a new progress report, appeared in this conference room again.

(End of this chapter)